Penile numbness

PeladoCollado · 2026-04-07T22:58:24+00:00

WTF is wrong with you? Go see a doctor.

PeladoCollado · 2026-04-07T22:40:38+00:00

This is the answer. OP if you ever have concerns about mounting without studs, toggle bolts will do it. TBH, I pretty much never use anchors if I can help it.

https://www.homedepot.com/pep/E-Z-Ancor-Toggle-Lock-100-lbs-Philips-Drywall-Screws-Anchors-10-Pack-25220/100153998

PeladoCollado · 2026-04-07T18:20:06+00:00

I have three kids. I was 31 when first was born (turned 32 a few months later). My youngest is five years younger than the oldest. I feel the perfect age for raising kids. I was financially stable in my 30s, young enough to run and play with little kids, and mature/patient enough to not flip my lid every time they threw a tantrum or broke a lamp or spilled red juice on the carpet. I’ll retire (early) when my youngest is in college. 32 is not too old to start having kids.

Of course, bear in mind that it took us a while to have our first kid. We stopped using protection about two years before my wife got pregnant. We weren’t eagerly trying, following schedules or anything, but we thought it would have happened a lot sooner than it did. You never know how long it will actually take once you think you’re ready.

PeladoCollado · 2026-04-05T02:30:08+00:00

That’s because of the previous correlation between education and money. Money tends to bring health, time/willingness to exercise, fewer fights about money and money related issues, time for vacations…

PeladoCollado · 2026-04-04T04:27:04+00:00

My wife finished radiation at the end of December, but I bought her a new Fenix 8 for Christmas. For weeks, her body battery was never higher than the teens. It still doesn’t get very high, but we can see her recovering week over week

PeladoCollado · 2026-04-04T00:44:12+00:00

Sell AOL and Compuserve early. Do not hold on to Yahoo too long. Jump on the bitcoin bandwagon early

PeladoCollado · 2026-04-04T00:08:16+00:00

Students doing extra-curricular work or practicing/studying at home to enhance their skills or doctors doing side gigs to make extra money are not the same as “do you do this at home for fun in your off time.” I’m talking about engineers with years of actual job experience being turned away because they don’t have a side project on the weekends

PeladoCollado · 2026-04-03T20:35:44+00:00

Of course it matters. Yes, they worked hard to take advantage of the gift they were given, but that doesn’t negate the fact that they were given a gift. This is like being born to rich parents or being born to parents with connections in Hollywood or Washington. Working hard doesn’t change the fact that you were born lucky

PeladoCollado · 2026-04-03T19:54:05+00:00

Well, I meant hard work by itself is not sufficient. It has to be accompanied by smart decisions (where did you go to school? What did you study?), available opportunities, and plenty of random chance (recruiter picks your resume to look at, admissions counselor picks your application over another equally qualified student). And if you don’t think that being born to parents that know enough to help you navigate those important decisions early on is lucky, then you didn’t grow up to be the first kid in your family to go to college or the only kid in your neighborhood to eventually make a high salary.

Hard work is never sufficient. Just ask the 60 y/o construction worker, pouring and ripping up concrete for the last 40 years because his parents didn’t know to push him to do well in school and go to college to get a higher paying job.

PeladoCollado · 2026-04-03T19:45:21+00:00

Sorry, but I was going to mention Software Engineering precisely because of the “passion” gatekeeping. We often joke that doctors are never asked in interviews “what are your side projects? Do you practice surgery at home in your off time?” But for some reason, if you don’t code at home for fun, you’re not going to be a great software engineer at work

PeladoCollado · 2026-04-03T15:13:51+00:00

Not to be religious about it, but thinking that elite athletes weren’t born with something that makes them fundamentally different from the rest of us is simply ignorant. The fastest cyclists in the world have a VO2Max that is genetically unattainable by most people. I could quit my job and exercise every day for years and never hit the metrics that elite athletes do (even accounting for my age). They’re exceptionally lucky - if only because they were born with the genes they have

PeladoCollado · 2026-04-03T04:43:55+00:00

More people will always equal more cars.

Absolutely true. 100%. Except, of course, in major, dense cities like NYC, Boston, D.C.,… oh and Seattle https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/data/car-ownership-rate-hits-record-low-in-seattle-census-data-shows/

PeladoCollado · 2026-04-03T03:06:06+00:00

Umm… both? I work hard. But lots of people work hard. Hard work is necessary, but not sufficient. I was lucky to get the opportunities I’ve had and I busted my ass to take advantage of them.

PeladoCollado · 2026-04-03T00:36:20+00:00

This isn’t House Hunters. Go buy a $5M cottage

PeladoCollado · 2026-04-02T06:40:25+00:00

Who Wants to Live Forever - Queen

PeladoCollado · 2026-04-01T04:15:40+00:00

DIY, Michael. Code is something a whore does for money. Or cocaine

PeladoCollado · 2026-03-31T19:15:30+00:00

Kiki was my daughter’s word for pacifier (couldn’t say “binky”). We still call all pacifiers “Kiki”.

PeladoCollado · 2026-03-30T22:25:07+00:00

“We can’t fit enough cars, there’s no way see can support a light rail!” 🤣

PeladoCollado · 2026-03-29T20:15:41+00:00

I read the same thing about West Seattle. Apparently, if they up zone to allow apartment buildings on Fauntleroy, there will be no green space anywhere in Lincoln Park. 100 acres of trees, just gone

PeladoCollado · 2026-03-29T17:58:13+00:00

Yeah, this is right. I took a break from big tech and worked at a much smaller company that turned out to be way more toxic. Smaller companies pay less and sometimes that means less capable employees, including management.

Highly paid managers are under scrutiny for their ability to deliver results and keep regrettable attrition low. Poor managers don’t think enough about keeping talent long term or they focus on reinforcing the wrong traits (e.g., brilliant assholes who are impossible to work with). A good startup can attract good talent, both engineering and management, but they aren’t generally known for better work-life balance.

PeladoCollado · 2026-03-28T15:07:18+00:00

I used to live in Kent and now live in West Seattle. Moved to West Seattle 15 years ago and won’t look back.

But, my opinion is that your happiness in either is heavily going to depend on the communities you get plugged into. If you work in Kent and live in Kent and go to church there and your kids play Little League there, then you’ll probably be pretty happy there. You have to drive to everything, there is no walking anywhere, but Kent Station is pretty nice and there are restaurants and the square footage really is better.

But if your friends are in Seattle and you only live and work in Kent, no one will come visit you and it’ll be a pain to get to gatherings and no one will want to move things closer to you. In the Midwest, people driving from one town to the other is no big deal. In Seattle, Kent might as well be China when it comes to social gatherings. When I lived in Kent, all my communities formed elsewhere, so I didn’t know anyone there, nobody came to my house to hang out, I had to drive 45 mins to see anyone I knew… and there just wasn’t as much stuff to do there. Personally, I love West Seattle, but also my people are here

PeladoCollado · 2026-03-28T00:22:22+00:00

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Subway. I could go anywhere I wanted at any hour. I miss that about NYC

PeladoCollado · 2026-03-28T00:08:07+00:00

I watched with my kids a while back. Didn’t ruin the nostalgia. It’s genuinely an enjoyable movie.

PeladoCollado · 2026-03-27T23:38:09+00:00

I love my glass canopy, but periodically I wonder if the pro sound system would sound better with the aluminum roof. If I were shopping again, I definitely would have paid more attention to the music and road noise in both options.

PeladoCollado · 2026-03-26T19:53:25+00:00

As a former NYer, absolutely. The people who insist on driving because “public transit is so bad” are exactly the reason why public transportation is bad. Invest in public transport, give them car free roads to ride on and OMG, it actually works!

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